Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.
BERNARD CORNWELLWe make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don’t take chances then you’ll never have a winning hand, and I’ve no regrets.
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I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.
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Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win.
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Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life… Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted.
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I’ll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
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Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you’ll weep yourself to death.
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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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But when you have order, you don’t need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected.
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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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I’m fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
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We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
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